The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
- Level
- B2 B2 · Upper intermediate
- Audiobook
- 9 h 30 min
- Read by
- Bob Neufeld
- Words
- 81,629
- Chapters
- 24
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How it begins
The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.
From the corner of the divan of Persian saddle-bags on which he was lying, smoking, as was his custom, innumerable cigarettes, Lord Henry Wotton could just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured blossoms of a laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flamelike as theirs; …
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